Frederick Frelinghuysen

Frederick Frelinghuysen (13 April 1753-13 April 1804) was a US Senator from New Jersey from 4 March 1793 to 12 November 1796, succeeding Philemon Dickinson and preceding Richard Stockton. He was a member of the Federalist Party.

Biography
Frederick Frelinghuysen was born in Somerville, New Jersey in 1753 to a prominent Dutch-American family. From 1771 to 1774, he was the sole instructor at Rutgers University, and he became a lawyer in Somerset County in 1774. From 1775 to 1776, he served in the Provincial Congress, and he served at the Battle of Trenton and Battle of Monmouth as a Continental Army artillery captain during the American Revolutionary War. In 1784 and from 1800 to 1804, he served in the New Jersey General Assembly. In 1790, he became a Brigadier-General in the US Army during the Northwest Indian War, and he went on to serve in the US Senate from 1793 to 1796. He died in Millstone in 1804.